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What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides? Answer: peninsula

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What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides? Answer: peninsula

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  1. Unit 1 Study GuideWhat is precipitation that combines with chemicals in air pollution?Answer: acid rain What is the usual, predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time?Answer: climate What is the cutting down of forests without replanting them?Answer: deforestation What are the areas near the equator that have warm weather all year?Answer: tropical What is the mid-latitude coastal climate with mild, rainy winters and cool summers? Answer: marine west coast What are the unpredictable changes in air that take place over a short period of time?Answer: weather What is the mid-latitude climate with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers?Answer: Mediterranean What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land? Answer: isthmus What is the inland mid-latitude climate with cold, snowy winters and short, hot summers?Answer: humid continental What is low-lying stretch of flat or gently rolling land?Answer: plain What is the height above sea level? Answer: elevation What is a piece of land smaller than a continent completely surrounded by water?Answer: island

  2. What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides? Answer: peninsula • What is flat land at higher elevations? Answer: plateau • What is a body of water wider than a strait between two pieces of land? Answer: channel • What is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs? Answer: culture • What is landscape that receives little precipitation? Answer: desert • What is a narrow body of water between two pieces of land? Answer: strait • What is location east and west of the prime meridian? Answer: longitude • What is soil and sand deposited at a river’s mouth and built up over time? Answer: delta • What are partly dry grasslands and prairies climate surrounding many deserts? Answer: steppe • What is land with steep sides that rise sharply ( 1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land? Answer: mountains • What is the high latitude climate with bitter cold winters and near freezing summers? Answer: subarctic • What is location north and south of the equator? Answer: latitude • What is the vast treeless plain with permafrost in the high latitudes? Answer: tundra • What is a group of people who share a common history, language, religion, and some physical characteristics? Answer: ethnic group

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